DAMASCUS, Prophecies concerning

Isaiah 8:4

4. For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of DAMASCUS and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 17:1-2

1. The burden of DAMASCUS. Behold, DAMASCUS is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Jeremiah 49:23-29

23. Concerning DAMASCUS. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24. DAMASCUS is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

25. How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of DAMASCUS, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

28. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

29. Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

Amos 1:3-5

3. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of DAMASCUS, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

4. But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

5. I will break also the bar of DAMASCUS, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 9:1

1. The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and DAMASCUS shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.